It’s the Super Bowl, and there are lots of food options to enjoy while watching the game. We stopped by a few places, capitalizing on football fans’ favorite dishes

THROOP, Pa. — Rooting for your favorite football team on Super Bowl Sunday can work up quite an appetite.

But what is the go-to football food? If you ask the firefighters-turned-cooks at the Volunteer Hose Company of Throop, they’d say: chicken wings!

“It’s our 20th anniversary, so we’re probably about, at least right now, about 1600 pounds of chicken,” says Robert Hegedus, President of Volunteer Firefighter of Throop.

Wingfest saw hundreds of pounds of chicken thrown into the fryer and then coated in buffalo sauce.

A dish people were eager to get their hands on.

Hegedus says, “We have chicken going out the door like crazy, like we didn’t anticipate it to be as successful as it was.”

Just down the road, a different meal was being brought out to hungry sports fans.

 John Uhranowsky, Throop Hose Company No. 1 firefighter, says, “The citizens of the community, you know, just great. They always support us in our fund drives.”

Members of Throop Hose Company No. 1 were busy packing up hundreds of barbecue chicken and scallop potato dinners.

In its 45th year, the cooking started early, at 5 am, and the weather was balmy, with temperatures of negative two degrees.

John Uhranowsky “Oh yeah, absolutely, they stay warm. They’re, they’re by the pit, which is warm, but, you know, kudos to them for doing a great job that they do.”

There is one more Super Bowl meal that keeps people coming back to the Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Company.

Asst. Chief Jason Crambo, Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Company, says, “Over 200 pizzas, 5 different sauces, 5 different pizzas that we’re making, we’re all sending them out the door to everybody for the big game.”

The annual hot wing and pizza sale sees volunteers ditch the turnout gear for gloves and aprons. 

Keeping hundreds of households full for game day.

“Takes a mountain to have an event like this. It’s not just today. All week we’ve been prepping.”

Proceeds from the fundraisers will go towards buying gear and supplies for each of the volunteer fire departments.